--- type: "Bill" title: "Mental health: county patients' rights advocates: training materials." description: "Existing law requires the State Department of State Hospitals and the State Department of Health Care Services to contract with a single nonprofit entity to provide for protection and advocacy services to persons with mental disabilities, as specified. Existing law requires each local mental health director to appoint, or contract for the services of, one or more county patients' rights advocates. Existing law requires these advocates to, among other things, monitor mental health facilities, services, and programs, as defined, for compliance with statutory and regulatory patients' rights provisions, and receive and investigate certain complaints from or concerning recipients of mental health services residing in licensed health or community care facilities." jurisdiction: "us/states/ca" legislature: "California Legislature" session: "20172018" identifier: "AB 2316" citation: "California AB 2316 (20172018)" classification: ["bill"] subjects: ["Mental health: county patients' rights advocates: training materials."] status: "enacted" primary_sponsors: ["Eggman"] version_count: 6 action_count: 21 vote_count: 6 first_action: "2018-02-13" last_action: "2018-08-28" source: "openstates" source_identifier: "ocd-bill/131ac82d-f669-4d58-ac7c-e6bc117faacb" source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2316" source_hash: "7bdff56660c46b46dbcd49565751f75ce0e1b8564e9a45c651c44c007f9cbc0f" vintage: "2026-07-01" source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump" retrieved_at: "2026-07-06" confidence: "reported" tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"] --- # California AB 2316 (20172018) — Mental health: county patients' rights advocates: training materials. Existing law requires the State Department of State Hospitals and the State Department of Health Care Services to contract with a single nonprofit entity to provide for protection and advocacy services to persons with mental disabilities, as specified. Existing law requires each local mental health director to appoint, or contract for the services of, one or more county patients' rights advocates. Existing law requires these advocates to, among other things, monitor mental health facilities, services, and programs, as defined, for compliance with statutory and regulatory patients' rights provisions, and receive and investigate certain complaints from or concerning recipients of mental health services residing in licensed health or community care facilities. ## Version chain The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment. 1. **02/13/18 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2316&version=20170AB231699INT) 2. **04/05/18 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2316&version=20170AB231698AMD) 3. **06/14/18 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2316&version=20170AB231697AMD) 4. **08/28/18 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2316&version=20170AB231695CHP) 5. **AB2316** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2316) 6. **08/14/18 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2316&version=20170AB231696ENR) ## Votes - AB 2316 EGGMAN Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **78–0** (pass) · lower - Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **8–0** (pass) · upper - Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **15–0** (pass) · lower - AB 2316 EGGMAN Assembly Third Reading — **73–0** (pass) · lower - 3rd Reading AB2316 Eggman By Nguyen — **36–0** (pass) · upper - Do pass. — **17–0** (pass) · lower ## Sponsors - Eggman — primary (person) ## Timeline The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote. - **2018-02-13** Read first time. To print. `reading-1` - **2018-02-14** From printer. May be heard in committee March 16. - **2018-03-01** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee` - **2018-04-04** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (April 3). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction` - **2018-04-05** Read second time and amended. `reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2` - **2018-04-09** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee` - **2018-05-02** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 2). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage` - **2018-05-03** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1` - **2018-05-10** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 5120.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1` - **2018-05-10** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1` - **2018-05-24** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee` - **2018-06-13** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 13). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction` - **2018-06-14** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1` - **2018-07-02** From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage, reading-2` - **2018-07-03** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1` - **2018-08-09** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 5233.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1` - **2018-08-09** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 11 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77. - **2018-08-13** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 6242.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage` - **2018-08-16** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m. - **2018-08-28** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature` - **2018-08-28** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 237, Statutes of 2018. ## Source OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/131ac82d-f669-4d58-ac7c-e6bc117faacb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).